Cisco vs Torq

Cisco — Hardware · Public · $433.3B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Torq — Application · Private · $1.2B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Cisco AI Defense and Torq Auto Triage do comparable work on threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to detect and respond to security threats; smaller scale (private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

3 of 17 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, threat detection and response and workflow automation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship AI agent.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — Torq: $1.2B valuation, against Cisco's $433.3B market cap.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldCiscoTorq
Size$433.3B mkt cap$1.2B valuation different basis
Employees86,200350 Torq has 246× fewer
Founded19842020 36 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryHardwareApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Application, HardwareAI agent
HeadquartersSan Jose, USATel Aviv, Israel

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agent orchestrationThreat detection and responseWorkflow automation

Not verified for Torq · 14

Accelerator siliconAI compute hardwareCustomer supportData analysisData securityEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyInterconnectModel inferenceModel trainingServer systemsSpeech to textSummarizationVoice agent

Recorded for Cisco. Torq’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Torq has no capability Cisco lacks, among the 3 recorded here.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Cisco

AI agent

Webex AI AgentAI agent

Autonomous customer-service AI agent that handles inquiries conversationally across voice, SMS, email, chat and messaging apps and escalates to a human agent with context when it cannot resolve.

Torq

AI agent

Torq Auto TriageAI agent

An agentic engine that ingests and triages security alerts: normalizes them to OCSF, enriches with threat intelligence and business context, assigns verdicts with reasoning, suppresses noise, and escalates high-confidence threats to Torq Case Management and response agents.

Torq HyperAgentsAI agent

Specialized, customizable AI agents that investigate, manage, and respond to security cases across the full threat lifecycle, operating as a coordinated team under Torq Socrates; an Agentic Builder lets teams describe a goal in natural language to have a new HyperAgent planned, built and tested.

Torq SocratesAI agent

An AI agent for security-operations teams that triages alerts, investigates cases with data pulled from connected tools, and carries out containment and remediation, with analysts able to review.

No counterpart

Cisco sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Torq yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Application

AI Assistant for Webex Contact CenterApplication

AI assistant for contact-centre agents and supervisors that produces call and transfer summaries, live transcription, suggested chat replies, topic analytics, automatic CSAT scoring and agent burnout signals.

Cisco AI CanvasApplication

AgenticOps workspace where teams and AI agents collaborate to investigate, correlate and resolve issues across domains: natural-language querying, multi-step agent workflows, shared real-time visibility, and native Cisco plus third-party tool integration via Cloud Control Studio.

Cisco AI DefenseApplication

End-to-end AI security product that discovers an organisation's AI assets, red-teams models and applications for vulnerabilities, and enforces runtime guardrails against prompt injection and data leakage.

Cisco IQApplication

Agentic support intelligence delivered inside Cisco Support and Professional Services — 'the delivery vehicle for everything Cisco Support and Professional Services knows about your environment, made continuously available before you ask for it' — generally available as SaaS since April 2026 and included with existing support contracts.

Webex AI Workforce Engagement ManagementApplication

AI-native workforce engagement suite for contact centres that forecasts demand and optimises shifts, uses NLP and LLMs to evaluate 100 percent of human and AI agent interactions (AI Quality Management), and runs performance coaching and AI-led onboarding simulations.

Hardware

Cisco AI PODsHardware

Pre-validated modular AI infrastructure bundles that combine Cisco UCS servers, NVIDIA GPUs, Nexus 9000 400G/800G switching and management software into single orderable stacks for AI inferencing, training and fine-tuning.

Cisco AI PODs for CollaborationHardware

Turnkey on-premises AI appliance that runs real-time speech transcription for Cisco collaboration deployments locally, for customers with data-sovereignty requirements that rule out cloud AI services.

Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AIHardware

Cloud-managed full-stack AI cluster sold as hardware plus software plus service, packaging Cisco 6000 and N9300 series switches on an 800GbE back-end fabric, UCS servers with NVIDIA H200 GPUs and BlueField DPUs, optional VAST storage and NVIDIA AI Enterprise under the Hyperfabric cloud controller.

Cisco Silicon OneHardware

Unified programmable networking-silicon architecture for AI, hyperscale, data-centre, service-provider and enterprise routing/switching, spanning five series (G/P/E/K/A) of chip families.